Host Ended Game

Good games to the Leftovers and congrats to my Unofficial mates on the win last night.  Lots of fun. 

After finishing off the matches last night I was going to call it quits and finish up packing for this weekend.  But, as I got out of my gaming chair to shut things down, the wifey walks in and tells me to keep playing.  She had packed for me and had to finish her packing and get a shower.  Sweet!  That meant a minimum of an hour more of uninterrupted gaming time. 

So I jump back to a party of my own and start looking through the dashboard to see if anyone else is still on.  Weeble Wobbles and OG's were in there match and a few others appeared to be in a party and in a match.  Of course, everyone else was playing GTA IV.  So I just hopped into some Hardcore TDM on my own.

Last night ended up being one of those nights.  Some times you just get in a zone.  I'm pretty sure everyone knows what I am talking about .  Everything goes your way.  Well it certainly did last night.

I ended up doing decently well in our matches against the Leftovers last night.  At least in the matches we won.  Something like 21-13 the first match, and a borderline ridiculous 31-8 in the last match.  After almost quitting for the night, I jumped on into the Hardcore games. 

The first map that popped up was Countdown.  The very same map I just lost my mind on.  I ended up going bonkers again with a final tally of 37-7.  And then away I went. 

The next map up was Creek.  Until this map came along, I hated sniping.  But, for whatever reason, I tend to go nuts sniping on this map.  Last night was more of the same.  I have a real winner of a camping spot on this map.  Near the houses on the hill across from the ridge.  Gives me a great view of the valley, the edge of the ridge, and the entire top of the ridge.  Thankfully I spawned on that side and ran straight to this spot.  Soon thereafter, like ducks in a shooting gallery, three guys pop their heads out around the edge of the ridge.  Three trigger pulls and I've got a UAV.  Soon thereafter I spot a couple of snipers belly crawling up on the ridge.  Two more trigger pulls and I have an airstrike.  Big fat whiff on the airstrike, but I catch two more trying to make a run for it to the waterfall.  Two more trigger pulls and here comes the chopper. 

For those of you that do not like Creek or don't play much Hardcore, this map on Hardcore is pretty much a game of first to control the tunnel and get a chopper wins.  I had some really good timmies on my team that actually communicated and we pretty much had the other team spawn locked on the other side of the ridge.  From this point on I catch two more making a run for the waterfall as well as another sniper creeping up on the ridge.  My chopper does work and all of a sudden I am 25-0.  And then suddenly the game ends.  I just assumed, for a brief moment, that we had made quick work of the other team and that was just the end of the game.  But then that phrase pops up there.  "Host Ended Game".  Dadgummit!!!!  Two kills away from my top kill streak.  Oh well.  It was fun at least.

So back to the lobby.  New host assigned and away we go on Backlot.  For whatever reason, I tend to do well on this map as well.  This time I am stuck with a bunch of retards that are team killing and generally being stupid.  So I resort to a bit of a different tactic.  The entire other team is basically following these idiots around from spawn point to spawn point wiping them out.  So I just flank around them and follow behind them at a distance picking the stragglers off one at a time.  A random nade at the start of the match nets me a UAV.  Within a minute I have my airstrike and proceed to wipe the entire other team off the face of the earth.  Once again, my chopper does serious work and I just follow along behind the other team picking them off one at a time.  I get up to 25-0 again and start to get a little nervous and decide to camp for a bit.  Set up the claymores and wait.  One comes across my sights and as I pop him I hear the click of my Claymore.  27-0 and I have tied my kill streak.  At this point the timmies on my team have decided to play serious and we have taken the lead by 2 or 3 kills.  I lay down on the floor for a second to wipe the sweat off my hands and hear the click of my second claymore.  No kill.  Dadgummit.  So I back around the corner and wait.  After a few seconds here he comes around the corner.  Knife in hand, I go to break my old kill streak and........ "Host Ended Game"  YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME!!! 

At this point I almost turned the box off to prevent me from doing any real damage to any of my electronics.  But, the game has already started back up.  On to Crash this time.  I like that map.  It just gives me warm feelings inside.  I guess that comes from it being a Beta map and how excited I was about getting in on that.  Nothing truly outrageous like the previous two maps, but I end up 19-4.  Not too bad.  I played three more matches after that.  On two of the three I ended up with 20+ kill streaks.  On one of those the host ended the game early again.  Thankfully my kill streak had already ended as well or I very well might have done some damage to something in the house.

You know, I completely understand having to suddenly leave a game.  I've had to do it a few times myself.  But last night was ludicrous.  I'm not going to gripe about IW's MP and hosting code.  It works better than it did.  It is nowhere near ideal.  But it ain't bad either.  But, it is night's like last night that I love and that I hate.  Definitely one of my best nights on KoD4 as far as KDR goes.  But to have two 25+ kill streaks ended that way... well it just makes me downright mad.  Not that any of you do or should care.  But dadgummit I was doing good last night.  And somebody had to go and ruin all that fun.  I wonder what I could have gotten my kill streaks up to?  Oh well.  I guess I'll just have to do it again this weekend.  It sucks that I gotta wait till Sunday or Monday night, though.  Stupid Mother's Day.

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13 days and crap do I need this vacation to get here.  Outside of going through our backpacks and making sure everything is in them, all we have left to do is the last minute piddly clean the house, unplug everything, pull the car in the backyard and lock the gate type stuff.  13 long arduous days.